I forgot to point out yesterday that Steam has the old Dark Forces and Jedi Knight games for less than $10 a piece. I bought the Mara Jade game Mysteries of the Sith not too long ago and actually had some issues that needed additional tweaking due to that old game not being compatible with my super powered graphics card. It was fun playing it for a while and reliving old PC memories.
---------------------------------------- Have a Better One, Edward Crosby http://about.me/edwardcrosby On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Patrick Pence <[email protected]>wrote: > I meant his faithful droid, bE-B0. > > ------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [The Unique Geek] Fwd: [Geeks] Star Wars: The Old Republic > Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:21:20 -0400 > > > Always an astromech droid... never an X-Wing pilot. :-) > > That was just me channeling Sluggy, anyway. > > ______________________________ > [email protected] > *"You can be the captain, * > * and I will draw the chart..."* > > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:16:30 -0400 > Subject: Re: [The Unique Geek] Fwd: [Geeks] Star Wars: The Old Republic > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > One thing was the magic of Star Wars. Star Wars doesn't hold that same > magic for me like it used to in those days. Also, it was the newness of > video games. In those days all those types of PC games had a freshness to > it, ya know, kind of like that new car smell. When Dark Forces came out we > had only been introduced to the FPS games of Doom, Wolfenstein and such. > With Dark Forces, we could assume the role of a new Star Wars character, > Kyle Katarn, going around the Star Wars universe shooting Storm Troopers > (not Clone Troopers) with a blaster. With X-Wing and Tie Fighter, we were > flying Star Wars ships in the form of an actual flight simulator where it > was truly beneficial to have a droid navigator called Patrick Pence. > It was magical then mostly because of the newness of PC video games but > also because it was during the dry season of Star Wars. It was 10 years or > so after Return of the Jedi and several years before the remastered > versions. I guess these days there's just an over saturation of Star Wars, > mostly pertaining to the whole Clone Wars stuff. Even though it's rare to > see something innovative in video games these days, I would love to revisit > those old days of Lucasarts when they made really good video games. It would > be neat if they came out with a FPS or flight simulator game again that > pertained to the Rebel Alliance years that we love so well from the original > trilogy. > > ---------------------------------------- > Have a Better One, > Edward Crosby > http://about.me/edwardcrosby > > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Jason Service <[email protected]> wrote: > > having never played them, what is it about them that you miss? (insert poor > graphics joke here) > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Edward Crosby <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ya know what I miss about Star Wars games? They being more like the old > days (not Old Republic) before the prequel trilogy. I miss games like X-Wing > fighter, Tie fighter, Dark Forces, Jedi Knight and such. > > ---------------------------------------- > Have a Better One, > Edward Crosby > http://about.me/edwardcrosby > > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Jason Service <[email protected]> wrote: > > Scott (Of the St Pete Geeks) found this and it is a fun game > trailer...kind of makes SW fun again... > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Scott Hamilton* <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:00 PM > Subject: [Geeks] Star Wars: The Old Republic > To: "St. Pete Geeks Group" <[email protected]> > > > I'm beginning to wonder if Bioware has some new business model that lets > them make money by just releasing trailers to games that never come out, but > here's a new one for Old Republic<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAfePILwSkM> > . > > As always, the action is great. My Star Wars nerd heart is a little > troubled by this story not fitting anywhere into established Sith history, > and with the technology looking very close to Galactic Empire era instead of > thousands of years before that. And I wish they could have gotten some new > music rather than reusing old John Williams cues. I'm guessing they can't > afford new John Williams music, considering the Bioware equivalent of > Harrison Ford is the voice of Bender. > > -- > *Scott Hamilton* > Nerd, Collector, Writer My God, It's Full of > Nerds<http://www.stomptokyo.com/scott/nerds/> > St. Petersburg, FL St. Pete Skeptics Society <http://veretics.org/> > . > <http://www.facebook.com/scopi> > <http://twitter.com/Scopi><http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124356048@N01/> > > > -- > "St Pete Geeks" Google Group: [email protected] > > unsubscribe: [email protected] > on the Web: http://groups.google.com/group/stpetegeeks?hl=en > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. 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